Did Lupin do it? (was Tactics & Prescience)

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 76877

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "zesca" <nansense at c...> wrote:
> 
> holly_phoenix_11:
> > > ...it is really hard for me to be convinced that anyone, 
> > > even Dumbledore, would sacrifice someone's life, even for the 
> > > greater  good, especially if they trully belong to the good 
side...

massive snippage

> lupinwolf2001: 
> > WHAT DID 
> > I CARE IF NUMBERS OF NAMELESS and FACELESS PEOPLE AND 
> CREATURES WERE 
> > SLAUGHTERED IN THE VAUGE FUTURE, if in the here and now you were 
> > alive, and well, and happy? I never dreamed that I would have 
such a 
> > person on my hands.

 
> madeyemood:
> but sirius had both name and face, both of which mean a great deal 
to DD.

And this leads to another incongruity in the "Dumbledore Had to Kill 
Sirius" idea.  DD seemed to have a certain fondness for Sirius in GoF 
in that he helped find a hiding place so that Sirius could be near 
Hogwarts for the Tournament.  He had also been in touch with Sirius 
throughout the year, which had to have been a welcome interaction for 
a man on the run who was pretty cut off from society.  He brings 
Sirius in to be with Harry after the end of the Tournament.  

Then, in OoP, his professed reason for keeping Sirius locked up in 
Grimmauld Place, as he states flat out to Harry, was that he wanted 
to keep Sirius alive.  Okay, is he lying through his teeth here?  Or 
is he shading the truth?  Is he telling Harry his original reason for 
insisting Sirius stay hidden, and not telling Harry that 
circumstances had changed over the months? In other words, had 
Dumbledore's assessment of the situation indicated to him that Sirius 
might have to be sacrificed in order to push Harry in a certain 
direction?  And, that when Sirius showed up at the Dept. of 
Mysteries, Dumbledore was presented with a golden oppportunity to 
ensure that happened?

And, if that is indeed the case, how will Harry react to that, should 
he ever find out?  

Marianne